Cultivating Immortality: Beginning with Blessings from the Immortals

Thinking of this, Gu Xinghan immediately began searching the surrounding area.

After a long while, a complex expression of surprise and doubt appeared on his face. He could only vaguely tell that a battle had taken place, but he had not found any corpses.

Only a few traces of battle remained on the island; otherwise, there were no other signs.

Gu Xinghan's face turned ashen. He immediately ordered his men to search the island for clues. He believed that even if someone had deliberately erased traces, they would still have left some clues.

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Two months passed in the blink of an eye.

Since Chen Yi went into seclusion, the entire courtyard has been very quiet, with occasional bursts of spiritual energy and heat waves emanating from the room.

At that moment, the door opened.

Chen Yi walked out of the room shirtless, his aura suddenly changing.

"Phew, I finally broke through." He exhaled a breath of stale air, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

Using the Mysterious Water Pearl and the essence of Jade Dew, Chen Yi completely eliminated the residual fire poison in his body and then successfully entered the seventh level of Qi Refining.

For an ordinary cultivator to successfully advance to the late stage of Qi Refining means they also possess the potential to establish a foundation. However, Chen Yi, being a cultivator with a mixed three-colored spiritual root, would need to make a great sacrifice to establish a foundation.

If one has a mixed spiritual root of four colors or five elements, achieving foundation building is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Chen Yi broke through to the late stage of Qi Refining and clearly felt a great change in his spiritual energy and physical body. According to Elder Su, each breakthrough in the future would be a hurdle.

Because he has a mixed spiritual root of three colors, he faces the challenge of clearing impurities and fire poison with each breakthrough.

Especially when breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, the difficulty of condensing spiritual energy into spiritual liquid is far greater than that of cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Roots and dual-colored Spiritual Roots.

After stretching his body and getting dressed, Chen Yi went to the backyard to check on the situation.

Pushing open the backyard gate, he immediately went forward to check on the spirit insects and spirit fields.

The fire crystal insects had all hatched and were flying around the insect house. Chen Yi smiled upon seeing this and immediately walked forward to examine them closely.

"It's a pity that no insect king has been born yet; we can only wait patiently," Chen Yi thought to himself.

He turned to look at the swarm of fire ants and found them resting next to the fire essence jade, still showing no signs of waking up.

According to the jade slip of Master Jin Guang, the evolution of the fire ants is not that simple.

The fire ants have been dormant for almost half a year now, and there are still no signs of them reviving. It will probably take some more time.

Chen Yi was not in a hurry. As long as the fire ants successfully evolved, the strength of the swarm would definitely experience a qualitative leap.

He spent half a day tending to the insect swarm and the spirit field in the backyard.

When he returns to the front yard, he will also need to prepare to activate the blessing of the Heavenly Venerable Lingbao.

Chen Yi placed the offerings in front of him and silently prayed for the blessings of the immortals.

The next moment, a golden light instantly enveloped the offerings in front of him.

At the same time, Chen Yi's consciousness was also pulled into a strange space.

A cloud of auspicious clouds appeared in mid-air, upon which stood an old man with a handsome face, a long beard, and a purple robe.

He was surrounded by auspicious clouds and purple smoke, from which streaks of stars appeared.

Lingbao Tianzun looked up and pointed at Chen Yi, and a jade-character crimson book flew straight over.

Chen Yi felt a flash of colorful light before his eyes, and his consciousness returned to his body as he suddenly opened his eyes.

He looked up and saw a shrine floating above his head, inside which was the statue of Lingbao Tianzun.

At that moment, several lines of golden characters appeared before Chen Yi's eyes.

[Blessing from the Celestial Venerable Lingbao: Success rate of crafting Tier 1 talismans +20%, crafting speed +20%, and talisman power has a chance to double]

[Exclusive Passive Skill: Brushstrokes as Swift as a Dragon, Enhanced by Spiritual Treasures]

Chen Yi's face lit up with joy as the effects of Lingbao Tianzun's blessing instantly flooded his mind.

The two effects of his unique passive ability are simple and powerful for him.

The blessing of the spiritual treasure allows Chen Yi to directly increase the power of the talisman by about 20% when using it.

Chen Yi has already mastered alchemy and formations, and now he has also mastered talismans, which will further enhance his strength.

With the blessings of the immortals, Chen Yi mastered alchemy, formations, and talismans at a speed far exceeding that of ordinary cultivators.

Chen Yi took out several talisman-making methods given to him by the old manager of Baibaoge, and the materials for one of the talismans were already complete.

"Ice Blade Talisman, a high-grade first-tier talisman."

"Besides talismans and spirit pens, I need materials such as ice-attribute demonic blood, animal hides, and bones," Chen Yi muttered to himself.

Wu Qingshan gave him all the ice-scaled fish he had caught.

The demon blood, scales, and bones of the Icescale Fish are perfect for making Ice Blade Talismans. However, Chen Yi has only recently started learning talisman drawing, so Ice Blade Talismans are still somewhat difficult for him.

However, he has a talent for array formations and can quickly create talismans by drawing on his knowledge of other techniques.

Chen Yi took out the specially made storage bag that Wu Qingshan had given him and immediately began to dissect the ice-scaled fish.

Collect all their demon blood, scales, fins, and bones.

Chen Yi ground the fish bones and scales into powder, then mixed the bone powder, demon blood, cinnabar, and spirit-gathering powder together to make a talisman liquid.

He used the cinnabar talisman liquid to test on the talisman paper, wanting to familiarize himself with the runes of the Ice Blade Talisman as soon as possible.

Compared to array formations, the creation of talismans requires more attention to detail.

After all, runes can only be inscribed on small pieces of paper, and the slightest deviation will render all previous efforts futile.

Chen Yi placed the prepared talisman paper, spirit brush, and talisman liquid on his desk, intending to go into seclusion to create the Ice Blade Talisman.

As a first-tier superior talisman, the Ice Blade Talisman is far more powerful than the Fireball, Water Blade, and Lightning Talismans.

All the talismans I had were used up in the battle, and buying more would require spending a large sum of spirit stones.

Chen Yi went into seclusion, planning to produce a batch of Ice Blade Talismans before emerging from seclusion.

Time flies like an arrow; the days and months pass swiftly.

A month later, a chill permeated Chen Yi's room.

Chen Yi pushed open the door, clutching two light blue talismans in his hand.

"go!"

Chen Yi pointed, and the Ice Blade Talisman was instantly activated, sending two ice blades flying straight towards the wall.

Two crisp "thump" sounds were heard.

The ice blade attack instantly activated the array barrier on the wall, and the ice blade exploded, releasing bursts of cold air.

"Not bad, its power is indeed very strong!" Chen Yi's face showed joy.

This ice blade attack is comparable to the attack of a cultivator at the fifth or sixth level of Qi Refining. If the ice blade talisman can be continuously cast, even a cultivator at the ninth level of Qi Refining would have to do their best to resist it.

"It's a pity that making the Ice Blade Rune is a bit difficult," Chen Yi murmured.

After a month of seclusion to make talismans, Chen Yi only managed to produce more than forty Ice Blade Talismans.

Several of them triggered the blessing effect, with the runes on the talismans turning deep blue and their power far exceeding that of ordinary ice blade talismans.

Chen Yi flipped through the jade slip the old shopkeeper had given him. One of the talismans was a second-tier talisman, the Sword Rain Talisman.

After casting the Sword Rain Talisman, it can conjure hundreds of golden sword energies, with power comparable to the spells of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

However, to create the second-tier Sword Rain Runestone, one of the most important materials is Ink Gold Stone.

"Inkstone, Sun Huo mentioned it to me before."

"Could I go to Jinyun Valley with Sun Huo?" Chen Yi wondered to himself.

With a thought, the conditions for activating the second-tier spiritual treasure, Heavenly Venerable's Blessing, immediately appeared before his eyes.

[Second-tier Spiritual Treasure Heavenly Venerable's Blessing, requires 10 Fireball Talismans, 1 Azure Jade Brush, 20 Fire Cloud Mica Stones, 10 Ink Gold Stones, and 1000 Low-grade Spirit Stones]